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For a fact based worldview Passed

Monday March 6, 2017 11:30 - 11:50 Main stage

Speakers: Mikael Arevius, Olof Gränström

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Gapminder is an independent Swedish foundation with no political, religious or economic affiliations. Gapminder is a fact tank, not a think tank. Gapminder fights devastating misconceptions about global development. Gapminder produces free teaching resources making the world understandable based on reliable statistics. Gapminder promotes a fact-based worldview everyone can understand. Gapminder collaborates with universities, UN, public agencies and non-governmental organizations.

For the first time in human history reliable statistics exist. There’s data for almost every aspect of global development. The data shows a very different picture: a world where most things improve; a world that is not divided. People across cultures and religions make decisions based on universal human needs, which are easy to understand. The fast population growth will soon be over. The total number of children in the world has stopped growing. The remaining population growth is an inevitable consequence of large generations born decades back. We live in a globalized world, not only in terms of trade and migration. More people than ever care about global development! The world has never been less bad. Which doesn’t mean it’s perfect. The world is far from perfect !

Lecturers

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Mikael Arevius Speaker

Lecturer
Gapminder Foundation

Mikael Arevius is a lecturer, educator and a producer of teaching materials at Gapminder.
He has worked in the Swedish educational sector as teacher, curriculum manager and developer of teaching materials. Today he works at Gapminder focusing his work on developing a understanding on how we create a our worldview and learning practice that enables a better understanding of the world we are living in.

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Olof Gränström Speaker

Project manager
Gapminder

Economist, Gapminder Foundation